Add People to your Privileged Groups
May 28, 2007I.PH's privacy settings really sets itself apart from the pack because it gives you the ability to add people to your Privileged Group even if they aren't on I.PH. Today, I'm going to show you how. It's really easy!
Login to you I.PH account and click on DASHBOARD on your top bar to enter your control panel. Click on Add People to open the Add Connections Dialog box:
How to Create Privileged Groups
May 23, 2007So now that you know how to make a privileged post, you need to designate who you want to view that post. You could, as I mentioned here, type in individual email addresses of the people you want to give permission to. That works quite well. However, what you really want to be able to do is assign a post to be viewable by certain groups of people. For example, you might want the super fun but slightly naughty article about going out with your friends to be viewable by your barkada but not by your family. Or you might have a special family moment that you'd want to share strictly to members of your family. You might also have an article you want only your officemates to be able to access. The good news is that this is incredibly simple to do on I.PH. You can create different Privileged Groups and the members don't even need to be on I.PH! Here's how:
Down Time Scheduled for Tomorrow
May 22, 2007Hello again dear I.PH users. Please be advised that I.PH will experience some temporary down time tomorrow evening at around 7:00PM. The Interruption will last less than an hour. This allows us some time to upgrade our back end and also clean up a few bugs. The gallery will also be upgraded. This will allow us to incorporate more features in the future as well as improve over all performance for instance, you will notice some slight improvement in speed after this upgrade. It also gives us more avenues to make I.PH faster in the near future. The forums will remain online during the down time so you might want to spend your time there while waiting it out. Thank you for your understanding! Good day to you all!
How to create a Privileged or Private Post
One of my favorite features on I.PH is the ability to post privately. By making what we call a Privileged Post, I can put up an article on my blog that is only visible to people I choose. What sets I.PH apart is that the people I give permission to view the post, don't even need to have an I.PH account. If i know their email, I can share a private post with them. Your Privileged Posts cannot be seen by anyone who you don't give permission to. They don't even know that such a post exists. All the comments made in a Privileged Post are hidden as well. The whole post is also invisible to search engines so security is ensured. Pretty neat trick eh?
So how do you create a Privileged Post on your I.PH blog? It's simple really:
- Put the title of your blog, the content and your tags.
- Scroll down a little bit, Below the post window, above the Tags, you'll see the Advanced Settings Header..
- Click on the button on the right side of the Advanced Settings header.
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- This will show you the Restrict Groups Section
- Select Private to make your post a Privileged Post
- Click on the name of the group that you want to give exclusive access to your post.
- You can also add the email of people who are not in your network on the smaller box to the right. You can add as many email addresses as you want.
- Then after you're done giving permissions, click on Publish. You're Privileged Post will be up on your blog, visible only to the people you chose.
So there. It's really easy. Try it out for yourself. And share with us the real life applications you have for this feature in the I.PH Forums. Tomorrow I'll show you how to create Privileged Groups. Catch you guys again soon!
Widgets and Drag and Drop Sidebar!
May 15, 2007Good day dear I.PH users! We are happy to announce that your sidebars are not only working fine again but now sport two new features that we know a lot of you have been waiting for. Yes folks, you can now easily re order the elements in your sidebar through easy drag and drop. Once you've logged in to your account and turn Edit On, you can double click and hold the heading of any sidebar element and move it where you please. No need to enter your dashboard or anything. You do it right there on your main page!
You now also have the ability to add widgets to your sidebar! After logging in and clicking Edit On, you'll notice on the drop down menu bar a new entry called widgets. We have taken the liberty of including some of the more popular widgets Like Sitemeter, Google Maps, Meebome, MyBlogLog and Flickr, Slideshow for easier installation. Just get your own widget code from the third party provider and copy and paste to the corresponding widget box. To add more widgets, just click on the add link under widgets in the menu bar! Personally I'm really excited about this because this drastically expands the functionalities of our blogs. There are a lot of third party blog add ons out there and there are a lot more popping up regularly so this gives us a lot of new possibilities. Pretty cool don't you think.
Oh and you may have noticed that the google ads on the sidebar disappeared. This doesn't mean that AdSense no longer works on I.PH but rather that we are giving you guys better control. If you want to to enable Google Ads on your blog simply go in to your dashboard and click on Ad Settings on the Account Settings table. You'll be asked for your Google Adsense Client ID so if you don't have one yet sign up for one now! Take note though that for those on free accounts, we will still be implementing the 50/50 revenue sharing model which means that half the time, your ads appear and the other half of the time our ads appear on your blogs.
As promised, we continue to work on improving your blogging experience with I.PH. Your feedback has been very helpful to us and remains most welcome. So please do join the discussions happening over at the I.PH forums. Get to know your fellow I.PH users and keep yourself updated with new developments as well as request for even more features for your blogs. Blog on!
What’s up with my sidebar?!!!
May 9, 2007Hello folks. You may have noticed something odd about your sidebars the past few hours, particularly with custom content boxes. No need to worry. This is not a glitch. We disabled them for now while we integrate the javascript option which will allow you to add more utilities to your blog as well as the ability to re-arrange all the elements of your sidebar using simple drag and drop. Thank you for bearing with us. We expect to have normal operations as well as the new features up and running within the day. We appreciate your understanding. Salamat! Blog on!
